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The Hanoitimes - As Nicolas Cornet, a French photographer, journalist and publisher, is holding his exhibition on Vietnamese pagodas and temples in French Institute L’Espace in Hanoi. We have had an opportunity to sit down with him and talked about his special passion for Vietnam’s national identity. French photographer, journalist and publisher Nicolas Cornet. Source: Ngoc Thuy. What makes a foreign photographer like you have a special passion for Vietnamese pagodas and temples? I have been working in Vietnam for more than 30 years, so I was thinking I would like to make my next photo book about Vietnam. I find that pagodas are very nice heritage and wanted to make a collection about Vietnamese pagoda, so that the next generation can have some memories of this heritage. That was the first idea for my photo book on the pagodas and temples in Vietnam. Yen Tu - Quang Ninh province. Source: Nicolas Cornet. But Thap Temple - Bac Ninh province. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese temples and pagodas from French photographer’s eyes

Back to English Comments Travel & Life - October 31, 2018 | 08:24 pm GMT+7 Will people pay to watch documentaries in Vietnam? A film about a transgender person has raised hopes they will. The audience cheered and clapped as the screen faded to black at a cinema in Hanoi.The applause was not for a sold-out Hollywood blockbuster, a Vietnamese action movie or a tear-jerking romance.This time, the audience was cheering for Finding Phong, the first independent Vietnamese documentary to be commercially distributed in the country's hubs Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.It is no exaggeration to say that this marks a milestone in the history of independent documentary making in Vietnam, where such filmmakers have struggled to find support as well an audience that typically thinks documentaries are stuff you watch on TV for a few minutes before switching channels.Finding Phong premiered on October 2 in HCMC.More than 200 people showed up to meet Phong, a transgender person who underwent … [Read more...] about Finding Phong finds a paying audience in Vietnam – VnExpress International

Around Town Top libraries for students in town Nguyen Quy Thursday, Jan 4, 2018,16:21 (GMT+7) Top libraries for students in townNguyen Quy Students are seen at the international-standard INSPIRE Library of Ton Duc Thang University in HCMC’s District 7 - PHOTO: HOANG PHONG In HCMC, there are numerous libraries providing extra-curricular learning space for students in need of a tranquil venue for study in groups or self-study on the weekend. American Center Library, INSPIRE Library, General Sciences Library, and Idecaf Multi-library are four worthwhile venues for students in the city. American Center Library: 34 Le Duan Boulevard, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1 Located on the eighth floor of the Diamond Plaza building at 34 Le Duan Boulevard in District 1, the American Center library under the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate General in HCMC is a popular address frequented by students of English and the expat … [Read more...] about Top libraries for students in town

Viet Nam News HCM CITY — French photographer, journalist and publisher Nicolas Cornet yesterday released a photo book on pagodas in Việt Nam in HCM City. The 250-page book Vietnam Pagodas in English and French includes hundreds of photos of 31 pagodas and temples taken over the last three years. Cornet began his journey from northern to southern Việt Nam in 2014 to discover Việt Nam’s major pagodas, temples and places of worship. He took more than 20,000 pictures, and visited nearly 100 pagodas and temples. “I decided to make the book to show the beautiful heritage of Việt Nam’s pagodas, and to allow the next generation to remember this heritage. I wanted my children, whose mother was Vietnamese, as well as my Vietnamese friends’children, to be able to have memories about that,” said Cornet. Published by the Việt Nam News Agency Publishing House, the book consists of five chapters, featuring traditional pagoda … [Read more...] about French photographer issues book about pagodas in VN

A tank rolls into Saigon on April 30, 1975, while curious people chat with the newly arrived soldiers. — Courtesy photos of Claudia Krich Viet Nam News By Claudia Krich* Thursday (April 30, 2015) was the 40th anniversary of the full American pullout from Việt Nam. We hear a lot about those who fled and the suffering they endured. The assumption has been that after the Americans left, there was a terrible bloodbath in [South] Việt Nam, but history should get both sides of this story correct, now, 40 years later. There was no bloodbath. I was one of a handful of Americans who stayed in Saigon while the rest were fleeing and helping panicked Vietnamese friends and staff do the same at the end of April 1975. The propaganda had been extensive and effective in Saigon that the conquering North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front soldiers would maim, murder, mutilate and destroy. But they didn’t. I had been in Việt Nam two years already, and … [Read more...] about Eyewitness to the ‘fall’ of Sai Gon: It was not a bloodbath